[Fwd: Adding hier/mtree support for HAL]

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 15:04 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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> >Forwarding to arch@ at brooks' suggestion.
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> >Subject: Adding hier/mtree support for HAL
> >Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 13:50:10 -0400
> >From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>
> >Organization: FreeBSD, Inc.
> >To: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
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> >I'm not sure if this is the best list for this, so if there is a better
> >one, please let me know.
> >
> >jylefort and I have been working on porting HAL
> >(http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fhal) to FreeBSD.  The port
> >is working quite well.  One of the things it wants to do is mount
> >removable media such as CDs, USB sticks, etc. to mount points under
> >/media.  Some of us had discussed alternatives to /media (e.g.
> >/mnt/media and ${PREFIX}/media), but these were ruled out.  /mnt/media
> >is bad since /mnt is reserved for temporary mounts.  ${PREFIX}/media
> >(i.e. /usr/local/media) just doesn't seem like an appropriate place for
> >file system mount points.  In fact, any other location other than /media
> >will require a lot of additional work in HAL-dependent ports to get
> >those ports to recognize HAL-controlled mounts on FreeBSD.
> >
> >To that end, I would like to add a /media to FreeBSD.  I would like to
> >add this to hier(7) as well as BSD.root.mtree.  Would this be
> >permissible?  Thanks.
> >  
> >
> 
> just doing a quick look around, I see that apple use /Volumes for this..

Yes.  I've heard at least one objection to an uppercase directory name,
but /Volumes or /volumes is certainly a possibility.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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